Sao Tome and Principe | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
| year | value |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 6.242 |
| 1961 | 6.263 |
| 1962 | 6.284 |
| 1963 | 6.306 |
| 1964 | 6.327 |
| 1965 | 6.349 |
| 1966 | 6.371 |
| 1967 | 6.394 |
| 1968 | 6.419 |
| 1969 | 6.444 |
| 1970 | 6.468 |
| 1971 | 6.49 |
| 1972 | 6.51 |
| 1973 | 6.525 |
| 1974 | 6.534 |
| 1975 | 6.535 |
| 1976 | 6.528 |
| 1977 | 6.513 |
| 1978 | 6.489 |
| 1979 | 6.455 |
| 1980 | 6.409 |
| 1981 | 6.348 |
| 1982 | 6.271 |
| 1983 | 6.181 |
| 1984 | 6.078 |
| 1985 | 5.967 |
| 1986 | 5.849 |
| 1987 | 5.73 |
| 1988 | 5.613 |
| 1989 | 5.501 |
| 1990 | 5.396 |
| 1991 | 5.3 |
| 1992 | 5.212 |
| 1993 | 5.129 |
| 1994 | 5.052 |
| 1995 | 4.977 |
| 1996 | 4.902 |
| 1997 | 4.827 |
| 1998 | 4.748 |
| 1999 | 4.665 |
| 2000 | 4.577 |
| 2001 | 4.484 |
| 2002 | 4.387 |
| 2003 | 4.288 |
| 2004 | 4.189 |
| 2005 | 4.09 |
| 2006 | 3.995 |
| 2007 | 3.903 |
| 2008 | 3.816 |
| 2009 | 3.734 |
| 2010 | 3.657 |
| 2011 | 3.585 |
| 2012 |
Sao Tome and Principe | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.